Since graduating, Alexandra has developed her own unique style and approach to art and in parallel, has worked in the field of commercial display. Her theme as an artist has been to coordinate the aesthetic with the interior through a variety of media – producing abstract oil landscapes and seascapes through to a more recent, graphics based approach, looking at nature.
Since moving to the Wirral from London, she has been inspired by the open countryside, seascapes and wildlife that surround her. Working in acrylic on canvas, allows her to create clean, graphic compositions, which she wants her audience to look at and find as if for the first time.

B.A. (Hons) Graphic Design with emphasis on editorial illustration.
Andrew’s particular interest is narrative and storytelling, with his first graphic novel scheduled for publication next year. His still life work has grown out of his work as a private tutor over the last year. In teaching, he has rediscovered the satisfaction of teaching others the pleasure of learning to look with passionate intensity.

B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Printmaking.
Carys is a Welsh artist concerned with the enjoyment and excitement of painting in itself. Whilst working towards a degree in printmaking, Carys specialised in collographs. She enjoyed textures and marks.
Carys has been working on a variety of projects ranging from illustration to full-time teaching, but now feels she has an overwhelming passion to paint and to start printmaking again. The themes of the paintings are not as important as the technique and having fun with shapes, composition, colour and texture.

MA., BA (Hons) in Textile Design.
Chloe Holt is an Artist and Textile designer that creates emotionally charged compositions and loves to observe the beauty surrounding us.
She explores the multiple layers of feelings, time and memory, from the physical structure in landscape, to the loveliness in everyday objects. Working with mixed media she creates expressive, abstract and emotionally charged compositions which capture the personality of the subject.

Greg has been a practising artist for more than twenty years, and the landscape of Wirral is at the heart of his work.
It is important to him that he produces art from his own environment – Wirral’s landscape is intimate rather than spectacular in scale, and this is reflected in the work. His paintings are often based on one small object picked up whilst out walking.

B.A. (Hons) Fine Art – Wirral Metropolitan College. He specialised in sculpting in both Portland and Ancastor stone.
Ian's work is entirely hand carved from raw blocks of stone, taking into account the grain and qualities of each individual piece of stone.
In his work he takes inspiration from all forms of anatomy found in the natural world and in particular, contrasting organic and mechanical structures and forms.
He is concerned with the juxtaposition that exists between the natural and man-made world, in particular looking at the exoskeletal forms of insects and the articulation and links of these organic yet quite mechanical forms.

Graduate from Lancaster University B.A. (major). Fine Art 1987
Jim lives in West Kirby and his work has naturalistic beauty. His inspiration is eclectic as are his many talents, not only as a painter but also printmaker and illustrator / writer of humorous and romantic verse.

Born in Nigeria in 1960 but brought up on the Wirral.
Up until 1977 he worked mainly in monochrome and then 'discovered' colour with its hue, temperature, tints and shade and the emotional response it evokes.
In 1986 he 'found' pastel and 'fell in love with it'. He still marvels at its expressiveness. The beauty of pastel is that it is literally 'hands on'. The only medium that actively encourages you to touch the surface.
John is self taught and is a versatile painter whose subject matter and use of materials has remained eclectic over the years. This can be seen in the diverse range of works that he continues to produce and exhibit.
His current pre occupations are colour and texture. The latter being a challenge on a two dimensional surface. He has mainly exhibited in North Wales where he has lived for the past twenty years.

B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art (Sculpture) & Sociology.
Julie’s work captures a moment in time that is never repeated. The work takes on a life of it’s own and is created for the viewer to decide what it means to them.

Kay has a passion for drawing and has always believed that drawing underpins all art. The current resurgence of interest in it is long overdue. It is becoming a collectable art form in its own right once more as people realise how innovative it can be.
While exploring the effects of the many new types of pencil now available, Kay strives to maintain the delicacy of the medium while showing off its strength. She wants to make the pencil ‘sing’ as she coaxes an image out of the blank paper.

Lauren’s collection is a personal interpretation of the terms ‘delicate’ and ‘fragile’.
With the use of collage she has composed a balance of images which she has associated with these terms. She wanted to capture a gracefully rugged beauty.

Matthew’s large watercolours are inspired by the changing light, weather and atmosphere of his native coastline, the Dee Estuary.
His paintings have been exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI), the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), the Royal Cambrian Academy (RCA) and the Royal Watercolour Society.
In addition, he has had over 15 solo exhibitions both here and abroad. His paintings are also in private and corporate collections as far afield as America, South Africa and New Zealand.

Michael is a self-taught Wirral artist who has recently returned to full-time painting after a career in personnel management.
He is widely-travelled and was brought up in East Africa, which is where his interest in painting began.
The influence of early life experiences can be seen in many of his pieces of work, the most popular of which still have distinct African themes – both real and imagined. He works with a variety of media and techniques, often using oil pastels in combination with ink or watercolour.

Pat is a local artist whose work has been shown nationally in both group and solo exhibitions. Since studying sculpture and modelling at Liverpool College of Art, Pat has taught art, including clay life modelling for many years. She has worked in several media and has always enjoyed working from the human figure.
Pat uses a mixture of media and techniques to show the layers of decay that the passage of time confers on an image and its effect on personal and collective memories. She aims to convey in her work a sense of history and mystery and the fragmented, random and elusive quality of memory.

All posters are from Professor Dydo's collection in Poland.
The 'romantic' posters are by the artist "Wahkuscki".
The 'clown' posters are by the artist "Silkof". They were designed to promote the travelling circus visiting Krakow.
The actual posters available are screen prints. Only 10 to 20 were made over 10 years ago. The full size screen print posters are approximately 37" x 29". They are available at £120 each unframed.

BFA (Hons) Exeter, UK
Born in New York, USA, in 1961. Educated in England and the USA. Studied in resin and fibreglass sculpture, ceramic sculpture, printmaking, figure drawing and portrait sculpture. Rebecca worked with local clays and techniques in Camerota, South Italy. She was artist in residence in San Peng School, Kuala Lumpur. She has also worked in the USA and England. She has sculptures in collections of the National Parks, the National Trust and across the world. Rebecca currently lives in South Wales.
The sculptures on view are architectural fired clay which are frost proof. Therefore, they are ideal for both in the garden or interior.

Diploma in Fine Art, Foundation in Art & Design 2001-2003
B.A. Hons Degree in General Illustration 2003
Steve was born and educated on the Wirral. He has had numerous exhibitions including The Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral where he has had paintings accepted continually since the year 2000. In April 2003 he won first prize for a painting entitled “The Cottage”.
His specialised choice of media is acrylic, and he works to a realistic style. He is inspired by the artists Edward Hopper and Rene Magritte. Perspective and surrealism hold great fascination for Steve and always fire him with enthusiasm for the paintings he hopes to achieve.

Tim studied Fine Art / Painting at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, developing a sense of colour and working in the landscape.
Upon returning to Merseyside, Tim has exhibited widely throughout the North West and beyond. His work can be found as far away as Cornwall and one of his paintings hangs in Chambers in the House of Lords.
Tim’s recent work is loosely based on the seascape around his Hoylake home, as an extension of his ongoing experimentation with colour, abstraction and pattern in a more orthodox figurative style.

B.A. (Hons) Degree.
Tim currently lives on The Wirral, having spent some time abroad including Spain and The United States.
He draws and paints using traditional methods and materials. He often paints outdoors and then re-works in the studio, trying to capture what it was that attracted him in the first instance.

M.A. Painting, Manchester Metropolitan College.
Once Educational Curator for Family Programmes at Tate Liverpool, Vincent lectures in Painting at Wirral Metropolitan College. He has an established painting practice and regularly exhibits his work.
Though usually inspired by urban spaces, he offers here Romantic notions of the sublime. The three coloured varnish pieces on beech wood, suggest, using an entirely synthetic process, rural places: skies, sunsets and tracts of water. He says 'The surface of the painting is a painting of a surface'.
Viewers of his work are invited to read and de-codify the images for themselves.